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  1. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2005
    Colombia

    El Plan de Acción Nacional de Lucha contra la Desertificación y la Sequía en Colombia es un instrumento de alcance nacional cuyo objetivo general es adelantar acciones contra la degradación de tierras, desertificación y mitigación de los efectos de la sequía, así como para el manejo sostenible de los ecosistemas de las zonas secas, a partir de la aplicación de medidas prácticas que permitan prevenir, detener y revertir dichos procesos degradativos y contribuir al desarrollo sostenible de las zonas afectadas.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Colombia

    The growing use of Payments for
    Environmental Services (PES) for conservation has fostered a
    debate on its effectiveness, but the few efforts to date to
    assess the impact of PES programs have been hampered by lack
    of data, leading to very divergent results. This paper uses
    data from a PES mechanism implemented in Quindío, Colombia,
    to examine the impact of PES on land use change. Alone among
    all early PES initiatives, the Silvopastoral Project

  3. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Colombia

    The effectiveness of conservation
    interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services
    (PES) is often evaluated, if it is evaluated at all, only at
    the completion of the intervention. Since gains achieved by
    the intervention may be lost after it ends, even apparently
    successful interventions may not result in long-term
    conservation benefits, a problem known as that of
    permanence. This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the

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